The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-08
THE QUEENS OF HOME.
rev. DIR. TALMAGE breaches AT
THE HAMoTONS.

THE HAMPToNs, Sept. 4.-The Rev. DIR.
7 DE Witt Talmage's text today was from
SOlomon's Song, Vi, 8; There are three
score queens" Following is the sermon
iii full:
So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth
tie imperial character of q true Christian
woman. She is not slave, not hire
ling, not subordinate, but queen; and
IN my text Solomon sees sixty Of these
helping to make UP the royal pageant of
Jesus. In former sermon showed you
that crown and courtly attendants, and
Imperial wardrobe were not necessary to
make q queen; but that graces of the
heart and life will give coronation to any
woman. | showed you at some length
that woman's position was higher in the
world than mans, and that although she
hod often been denied the right of suf-
frdge, she always did vote and always
Vould vote by her influence; and that
her chief desire ought to be that she
Should have grace rightly to rule in the
dominion which she has already won. l
bcgan an enumeration of some of her
r hts, and this morning resume the sub
joct.
In the first place, woman has a special
AID superlative right-not again going
back to what have already said-woman
has the special and superlative right of
blessing and comforting the sick.
What land. what street, what house
he's not felt the snlitings Of disease? Tens
Of thousands of sick bedsl What shall
we do with them? Shall man, with his
rough hand and clumsy foot go STUN
btng around the sick room trying to
soothe the distracted nerves, and allevi-
8te the pains of the tossing patient? The
young man at college may scott at the
idea of being under maternal influences;
bat at the first blast of the typhoid fever
on his cheek, he says; ''Where is moth
err" Walter Scott wrote partly il satire
and partly in compliment when he said;
woman, in ours of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please.
When pain and anguish wiring the brow
n ministering angel thou.
think the most pathetic passage of all
lie Bible is the description of the lad
vho went out to the harvest field Of
Shunem and got sunstruck-th throwing
his hands on his temples and crying out:
"Oh, my head! my headr' and they
ssid: Garry him to his mother" And
t en- the record is: 'He sat on her knees
al noon, and then died" 1t is an awful
G ing to be i'll away from home in a
strange hotel. once in while men COM
ing in to look at you, holding their hand
Oger their mouth for fear they will catch
The contagion. How roughly they turn
you in bed. How loudly they talk. How
you long for the ministries of home.
ta.ew one such who went away from one
OF the brightest of homes, for several
weeks business absence at the west
4 telegram came at midnight that
Le was on his death bed, far away
from home. By express train the wife
a. d daughters went westward, but
Soy went too late. He feared not tC
ls, but he was in an agony to live unit
Us family got there. He tried to bribC
tie doctor to make him live little while
yonger. He said: Il am willing to die
but not alone" But the pulses 1uttered
tie eyes closed and the heart stopped
The express trains met in the midnight
esife and daughters going westward
Il aless remains of husband and father
coming eastward. Oh, it was a sad, pitt
I'll, overwhelming spectacle! When We
are sick we want to be sick at home
when the time comes for us to die w
want TO die at home. The room may b
very humble, and the faces that look int
uurs may be very plain; but who care
ur that? Loving hands to bathe th
temples Loving voices to speak goot
cheer. Loving lips to read the comfort
spg promises of Jesus. In our last dread
full war; men cast the cannon; men fash
ioned the musketry; men cried to th
hosts: Forward, march!" men hurlc
their battalions on the sharp edges of tn
enemy, crying: Charge! charged bu
woman scraped the lint; woman admins
tered the cordials; woman watched b
the dying couch; woman wrote the las
message to the home circle; woman weI
Il the solitary burial attended by hersel
tnd four men with spade. We greete
the general home with brass bands, an
4riumphal arches and wild huzzas; but tn
story is too good to be written anywhere
save in the chronicles of heaven, c
rs Brady. who came down among til
sick in the swamps of the Chickahominy
ST Margaret Breckenridge, who came t
men who had been for weeks with thei
wounds updressed-Some OF them frOze
- the ground, and when she turne
t,em over those that had an arm lei
aved it aud filled the air with the
hurrah;' of Mrs. Hodge, who cam
{0m Chicago with blankets and wit
> lows. until the men shouted ''Thre
s.leers for the Christian commission
{ od bless the women at home!' the
eittine down to take the last meSsag
Tell nv wife not to fret about me, bl
u meet me III heaven; tell her to train L
ine bows whom we have loved so wei
s,ll her we shall meet again in the goc
nd: tell her to bear my loss like Il
Christian wife of Christian soldier;
nd of Mrs. shelton, into whose face Il
convalescent soldier looked and sal
Your grapes and cologne cured me.
[en did their work with shot and she
md carbine and howitzer; women d
saeir work with socks and slippers al
f3ndages and warm drinks and Scr1ptu
S,xts and gentle strokings of the h
.4mples and stories of that land whe
iaey never have any pain. Men knC
Gown over the wounded and said: &c
hich side did you fight?' Wom,
1lelt down over the wounded and sal
Where are you hurt? What nice thil
an 1 make for you to eat? What max
~ou cry?' Tonight, while we men a
-9und asleep in our beds, there will be
rht in yonder loft; there will be groa
ing down that dark alley; there will
lies of distress in that cellar. Men W
leep, and women win watch.
Again: woman has a superlative rig
10 take care of the poor. There ;
hundreds and thousands of them all oN
he land. There is a kind of work Il
zaerl cannot do for the Door. Here con
=, group of very little bare foot childl
20 the door of the Dorcas society. II
need to be clothed and provided f
Which of these directors OF banks wo'
i,now how many yards it would take
make that little girl dress2 Which
,hese masculine hands could fit 9 hat
nat little girls head? Which of the W
men would know how to tie that n
,,air of shoes? Man sometimes gives
.haritv in a rough way, and 1t f
se the fruit of tree in the east, VIII
ruit comes down SO heavily that it bre
he skull of the man who Is trying
.ather it. But woman glides so sol
,ato the house of destitution, and n
mt all the sorrows of the place, and 7
. quietly the donation ON the table !
Il the family come out ON the trent ST
es she departs, expecting that from un
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